On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Barrett, Brian <bbarr...@amazon.com> wrote:
> 
> However, I do like Gilles' suggestion to make autogen.pl be a little smarter. 
>  If I recall correctly (and it's been a couple years now), I think that's 
> what GASNet does with their bootstrap script.  Seems like everyone gets what 
> they want :).
>> 
>>> - an alternative to removing autogen.pl (from the tarball) is to have 
>>> autogen.pl
>>> test repo_rev and/or tarball_version from VERSION so we can detect if 
>>> autogen.pl is ran
>>> from a tarball. in that case, we could fail with a message such as
>>> "you might not want to do that, but if you really do, re-run autogen.pl 
>>> with the --force parameter"
>> 
>> That's a good idea.

Gilles -- want to submit a PR?

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